Yeehaw! After almost a full year of amateur web-designing (at Lean-Forward), slightly above average HTML / PHP coding, and suggestive :blush: message- / comment-leaving, I’m finally *somebody* on the Internet. How so, you ask? Well, after almost a year at my domain, my blog has finally been noticed.

By spammers. By a spammer. By a crazy spammer.

It’s not like it’s the first time I’ve been spammed – my old blog got spammed mildly once. Apparently the spammers wanted to sell viagra to me. Perhaps they thought I needed a better libido? Let me rephrase that. Perhaps they thought I needed a better libido? Ask any ex-girlfriend of Vickie, you’d know that the last thing you want to do is to have me excited in any way. Okay, I’ve only had one girlfriend.

Anyhow, I checked my email as usual the first thing this morning. I think I went and made coffee after I logged in, and almost spilt it all over the keyboard when I came back. 150 emails, all comments for my different blog entries…

Good thing there’s a Mass Edit Mode in WordPress. 150 spam comments should only take 15 times of mass-deleting, 10 at a time. I actually found myself giggling while I was deleting the comments. 150 spam comments on a half-dead blog that hardly anyone visited. That online casino sure was desperate.

Nevertheless, something didn’t feel right. One, two, three… I’ve definitely mass-deleted more than ten times, but there are still new spam comments in the queue. It couldn’t be… And it was. My blog was in the process of being spammed, and I witnessed it. It wasn’t funny any more. 0.0

Thank god I came across AuthImage way before the horror. I was able to set it up in less than fifteen minutes, and it worked like a charm – the crazy spamming stopped immediately. I only found one or two wee problems in the plugin (mainly the image not updating when it should), but otherwise I’d highly recommend it (until the spammers found their way through this).

Oh well, that was a rather long entry explaining why you’d need to enter a code should you want to comment on my blog. Please do comment. Please? Hello? Anyone out there? *echoes*